Legal Challenges at the End of the Fossil Fuel Era

This edited collection proposes a wide range of approaches to address the legal issues pertaining to the end of the fossil fuel era. While the fossil fuel era is coming to an end both because of the inherent limits of its resources and because of the need to prevent to further pump out CO2 in an already saturated atmosphere, the legal dispositions to ensure an ordered and rational shift toward cleaner energy still need to be developed. Not only in relation to CO2 emissions themselves but also in relation to the manifold issues related to environmental justice in an era of global climate change and global warming. This book is unique in that it provides a theoretical framework but also works to address cutting edge issues through a series of case studies.

Proposes a range of approaches to address the legal challenges concerning the end of the fossil fuel era Offers a series of case studies Explores different legal avenues for ensuring an ordered and just energy transition

Autorentext

Daniel Iglesias Márquez is a Lecturer and "Juan de la Cierva" Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Rovira i Virgili University, Spain. He is also an Associate Researcher at the Human Rights and Business Institute of the University of Monterrey, Mexico, and at the Tarragona Centre for Environmental Law Studies (CEDAT), Spain.

Clara Esteve-Jordà is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) and an associate researcher at the Tarragona Centre for Environmental Law Studies (CEDAT), Spain.

Beatriz Felipe Pérez is a Research Associate at the Tarragona Centre for Environmental Law Studies (CEDAT) at the Rovira and Virgili University, Spain. She is also a researcher at CICrA Justicia Ambiental.

Inhalt

Preface.- Introduction: Challenges at the end of the fossil fuel era: An overview.- ***Part 1: Environmental and Social Energy Justice.- Chapter 1: Transitioning all* together? Participation rights, foreign investment, and the pursuit of a just energy future.- Chapter 2: The right to a decent standard of living: A practical tool to guarantee basic needs at the end of the fossil fuel era.- Chapter 3: Energy communities: Why (sometimes) the commons need the state.- Chapter 4: Linking energy poverty, environmental justice and forced displacement: Controversies and ways forward.- Chapter 5: Theorising a human rights-based approach to energy transition and its justiciability in international and domestic jurisprudence,- Chapter 6: Just transition litigation in Latin America: Striking a balance between economic development and environmental and social energy justice.- Part 2: Legal and Political Challenges of a Clean and Just Energy Transition.- Chapter 7: The challenge of 'phasing out' fossil fuels: a climate-changing transition.- Chapter 8: The role of hydrogen for a sustainable energy transition in the European Union: Between a fossil-based and a renewable path.- Chapter 9: The legal protection of the territory of Catalonia against specific renewable energy projects.- Chapter 10: Critical mineral supply in the European energy transition: Towards just institutional approaches.- Chapter 11: 'Sustainable Energy' under reformed international investment agreements.- Chapter 12: Energy Charter Treaty and investor-State dispute settlement: Legal challenges in energy transition.